COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, November 08, 2021
HEADED ITEM NO. 10
HEADED ITEM: Director of Corporate Performance & Change Management
300K HAVE YOUR SAY SHORTLIST - FOR APPROVAL
REPLY:
Following the launch of the €300K Have Your Say initiative for Tallaght Central on 8 September 2021, three online workshops were held and a promotional communications campaign took place. The communications around the initiative during this period focused first on promoting the workshops and then on obtaining idea submissions from the public through the €300k Have Your Say website. The Council’s community team also reached out to local groups and the Public Participation Network during this time.
The communications around the initiative during the initial period focused on promoting the workshops and then on obtaining idea submissions from the public through the €300k Have Your Say website. This was done through social media, local press and over 18,000 leaflets delivered to households and local businesses in the area advertising the initiative.
Direct contact was made with the Public Participation Network, community groups and organisations in the area. Adverts were placed in the Echo, Dublin People and the free Tallaght News newspaper.
Social media posts on the initiative were seen approximately 228,000 times with around 6,250 interactions with those posts through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Paid advertising was run on Facebook and Instagram. Messages were targeted through location at those within the Tallaght Central Electoral Area.
The deadline for submissions passed on 8 October with the Council receiving 223 project submissions from the public, the second-highest amount ever received for €300k Have Your Say. Each submission was assessed under the agreed criteria by the Executive team and considered by the Steering Group. The following is the agreed criteria for assessing the suitability of projects:
- A project that would benefit a significant number of people living in their community
- A project that is achievable within the maximum €300,000 allocation and without significant maintenance costs thereafter
- A project that is deliverable in 2022
- A project that is not already planned for by the Council within an existing programme of work
- A project that is within the remit of the Council and is not the responsibility of another government department or public body
- Is not project that would be considered for funding through an existing grant scheme, such as the Council’s Community Grants Scheme
- On land that is in public ownership and is not on private property? Land must be in public ownership.
- A project that is within the Tallaght Central Electoral area
- The purchase of vehicles is excluded from this initiative
The resulting shortlist of projects has been finalised through this process and is being recommended by the Participatory Budgeting Steering Group for approval to the November Council meeting and will be available for that meeting.
Following approval by the Council, the Public Vote stage will go live immediately for a two-week period from November 8th until Monday 22nd November. The announcement of the winning projects will be held on the evening of December 1st or 2nd in a venue to be confirmed. As numbers will still be limited under public health advice, the numbers attending this will be limited but all members of the Steering Group and the Tallaght Area Committee, together with the people who submitted all shortlisted ideas will be invited to the announcement.
Everyone who submitted an idea will be contacted and advised whether their idea was successfully listed for the public vote. Those whose ideas had to be eliminated will be provided with an explanation of the reason why their idea did not meet the criteria.
The Tallaght Area Committee will be provided with update reports on the progress made on the delivery of the successful projects throughout 2022.